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Title: Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy's Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty
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Groves, Lincoln |
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Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy's Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty Ph.D. Dissertation, Depart of Public Administration, Syracuse University, 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Educational Attainment; Program Participation/Evaluation; Social Security Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. My final dissertation chapter investigates how a particular college fund guarantee affected achievements in higher education. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1979) and a difference-in-differences model, this work re-examines the impact of the Social Security Student Benefits Program (SSSBP) on post-secondary educational attainment, a topic first studied by Dynarski (2003). By exploiting a larger panel of data and exploring degree attainment at various ages, my coauthor and I find that disadvantaged youth potentially qualifying for SSSBP funds - e.g., those losing a father before they turned 18 - were over 20 pp more likely to obtain higher education degrees beyond their high school diploma than similar students who would have qualified for benefits, but-for the program's termination in May 1982. Initial program impacts - i.e., those by age 23 - show an increase in Associate's degree attainment. As these respondents age, however, many go on to obtain four year degrees. Impacts are large and statistically significant, and suggestive that social programs seeking to reduce the financial costs of Associate's degrees - such as the one announced by President Obama in his 2015 State of the Union Address - could be well-targeted. |
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Groves, Lincoln. Three Essays on U.S. Social Policy's Impact on the Human Capital Development of Young Adults At-Risk of Poverty. Ph.D. Dissertation, Depart of Public Administration, Syracuse University, 2015. |